Une biographie sur Macca en 2010

Sir Paul McCartney's life will apparently be examined in detail in a new biography.

British author Howard Sounes is reportedly in advanced talks with HarperCollins' non-fiction department to the UK rights of the book.

It will give the Beatles legend's life "the epic treatment" according to The Independent.

Details of Sir Paul's divorce from Heather Mills were released in full on Tuesday and Sounes' new biography, to be released in late 2010, would examine the singer's life right up until the end of the bitter court battle.

Any book deal would reportedly to be a "substantial investment".

Sounes' agent, Gordon Wise of Curtis Brown said: "Howard will be putting everything into context. Usually McCartney's story in books ends in the 1970s when he formed Wings. This will be a wide sweep of his career and show how he's an amazing artist.

"John Lennon has been given the epic treatment several times over but no one has talked about Sir Paul in that way."

Sounes - who wrote 2001's acclaimed biography Down the Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan and Fred And Rose, the macabre book about he life of serial-killers Fred and Rosemary West - has apparently promised not to rake up the sordid details of Sir Paul's four-year marriage to Heather Mills.

Wise added: "Sounes will approach this with an independent eye, but it will not be a muck-raking biography."

But a spokeswoman for HarperCollins said: "The agent has rather jumped the gun. We are in discussion but we still haven't bought it."